GLOBAL WARMING, CO2, FOSSIL FUELS AND LIFE: A PHOTOTHERMAL ALTERNATIVE SOLUTION FOR SOLAR ENERGY ON-DEMAND
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Closed Loop, Vaporized Liquid, Industrial revolution, climate change, TurbineAbstract
Climate change has been a continuously occurring process since the beginning of time and will continue till the end of time. Over the last 650,000 years there has been no less than seven cycles of glacial advance and retreat, resulting in the sudden end of the last ice age about 11,700 years ago marking the start of the modern climate era and the human race as we know it to be. The sudden and continual increase of Water Vapor (H2O), Nitrous Oxide (N2O), Methane (CH4) and most importantly Carbon dioxide (CO2) (which has increased in atmospheric concentration by more than triple fold since the beginning of the industrial revolution in the period from about 1760 to sometime between 1820 and 1840 in Europe and the United States) has been the greatest contributor to climate change. Worldwide the greatest contributor to climate change, the biggest and most pressing threat to human life, Carbon dioxide is the burning of fossil fuels for electricity, transportation and other industrial uses. The use of power generators reliant on the burning of these fossil fuels for electricity production contribute immensely to CO2 atmospheric concentration and must hence be checked. This paper outlines how the use of a solar thermal energy harvesting application for use in vaporized-liquid powered closed-loop-turbine for electric power generation will help reduce dependencies on fossil fuels, protect life from its adverse effects and inadvertently delay the climate change.Downloads
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